Floyd Mayweather Should Put Up Or Shut Up
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By DERON SNYDER
There’s only one fight that every boxing fan wants to see, and it’s not Floyd Mayweather Jr. against fill-in-the-blank. It’s Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao, a bout that would pit the world’s two top pound-for-pound boxers.
Unfortunately, the Mayweather camp’s recent announcement of a date for his next fight merely intimated that Pacquiao would be the opponent. “We’re looking to make the biggest fight possible, and everyone knows what that fight is: the little fella,” Mayweather adviser Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN.com.
Yes, everyone knows what that fight is. But not everyone believes that Mayweather really wants to make that fight. A few days before the announcement, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said that the fight will never happen because Mayweather knows he’d be knocked out. Arum made the comment during media day for Pacquiao’s Nov. 12 bout against Juan Manuel Marquez.
